Bobby Jenks, who spent time with the Red Sox and White Sox during his seven-year career, was awarded $5.1 million in an out-of-court-settlement with Massachusetts General Hospital and Dr. Kirkham Wood.
The news, which came from the Boston Globe on Wednesday, came after Jenks filed a claim that he suffered a career-ending spine injury when Wood, the former head of orthopedic spine surgery, operated on his back while overseeing another operation at the same time.
It was Jenks' hope that he would return to the mound, but complications from the surgery ended his career.
“Never picking up a baseball again is absolutely devastating,” Jenks said Tuesday, via the Globe, as he was preparing for the trial. “I was living my dream, and it was taken away from me.”
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Jenks spent much of his career in Chicago but spent a short time in Boston in 2011. He pitched in 19 games before he hurt his back in June of that year. He said Wood botched his spine operation six months later and never told him he was overseeing a second simultaneous operation, according to the Globe.
The hospital said in a statement that Wood provided “high-quality and appropriate care” and that “overlapping surgery played no role in this case.”
“The amount of the settlement was far less than Mr. Jenks’s original demands, and we agreed that this resolution would be the most prudent outcome for all concerned,” a statement from the hospital read.
Jenks collected a World Series ring in 2005 with the White Sox.